The loophole stems from the 1996 Lautenberg Act, which was an attempt to keep guns out of domestic abusers’ hands. Unfortunately, Congress was concerned only with relationships that involved marriages, domestic partnerships and children. Casual partners or exes are completely exempt.

As Samantha Bee pointed out on Wednesday’s “Full Frontal,” this is such a clear-ringing alarm bell that even white Republican men are acting. That’s serious!